The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-11
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.

personal property under attachment without
giving bond In cases whore bond Is required.
passed the Senate on the 10Th ult. The follow
ing bills also went through the Senate To
amend the highway and bridge laws TO amend
the law relative TO liens for labor; to amend
the law relative To width OF wagon
tires upon heavy lumber wagons; TO
P GROSS Insurance. biz was faVoraSly re-.
ported. IL is aimed at graveyard insurance
concerns. Both branches had lively tirAe
upon the trouble in the Coldwater public school.
Representative Manly gave IL very severe
handling in the House, and after lively dis
cussion resolution was unanimously passed
for investigation. In the Senate, Senators
Hubbel and j. w. Babcock jumped upon il
with both feet and denounced the committee
exceeding their authority. Mr.. Hubbell demand
ed that the report be thrown out and refused a
place upon the journal. Half OF the sem
WAS WAS suprem %pon Tine rnei report w" was With.
drawn just in time to escape rejection
In the House, bills were passed to provide for a
tax collector in each OF the wards OF Grand
Rapids City to amend laws relative to appeals
from the decisions and reports Of commis sions
on claims against deceased persons. Repre-
sentative Grennell s resolution for an appropri-
alton Of $500 for the payment Of counsel fees
OF tho defendant in the Dakin impeachment
trial was taken from the table lively
finally tabled. The House Committee on
Liquor Traffic reported bill known al
the Bates bill IL imposes tax OF $500 on the
manufacture. sale, or tho keeping for sale Of
spirituous and malt liquors. and requires a
bond of from $1,000 to $1,000 No official or
person engaged as principal, agent servant
in the sale Of liquor shall be accepted as sure
ty The husband, wife, parent, child, guardian,
or employer may forbid the sale of liquor
TO members of the family, ward, or employee.
and may recover actual and exemplary dam
ages for injuries inflicted upon persons to
whom sales had been forbidden. In prose-
cutons the burden of proof is laid on the
defendant The bond covers the dam
ages. Ten dollars shall be paid to the person
ftNef hA alof Of
cused. Half the tax goes to the county and
half 10 the city or township. Any Assessor,
County Treasurer, or Prosecuting Attorney, or
other officer who refuses to make complaints,
shall be fined 500. No billiard card, pool
tables shall be kept in the same room with a
bar, or in an adjoining room, and no bar is al
lowed in any place of amusement. Saloons
must be closed ut p. IN. 1t is provided that a
violation of the law shall work a forfeiture OF
the tax and revocation OF the license for the
remainder of the year. Bars shall be on the
first floor Of n building, in front room, and no
screens shall be permitted.
THE House resolution calling for a committee
to investigate the Coldwater public school came
up in the Senate on the Cd inst, and after some
discussion it was tabled. large part of the
Senates session was occupied in discussing
Senator Sharp's bill for regulating appoint
ments defining the duties and fixing the sala-
ries OF court stenographers After n long dis
cussion and pending a motion TO strike out, it
was tabled and placed upon the general order.
The House of Representatives passed an
of store orders, scrip, notes, or certificates in
payment of labor. 1t also makes imperative on
all employers of labor to pay at least monthly.
Any violations OF these provisions is made
miSdemeanor, punishable by fine of from SIS
to $50 The vote on the bill was 62 for to
against it. The House also passed bill max
neglect when u corpse in an accident
is dihgured by fire. In such case ex-
recovered This is intended to force a dis
continuance of car stoves. It also passed q bill
increasing the salaries OF the Judges of the
| Supreme Court from $4,000 to 5000 per year.
! Other bills passed by the House were as fol-
| lows: To authorize f. A. Billiard to build q
bridge across Cass River Tuscola County to
| create fund for payment of damage to sheep
| by dogs in jackson City and the townships of
! Blackman and Summit in Jackson County; to
! authorize the Board of Control Of State
Swamp Lands to construct ditch through
| the townships of Hebron and Mack
inaw in Cheboygan County; to provide for
the appointment Of an agent for, the Re"
| form School, whose duties shall be to have the
care OF and provide for boys after being dis
charged from school; a bill for the formation OF
companies for constructing and maintaining
| water courses to increase the annual salarief
Of the Justices of the Supreme Court to $1,000
to authorize the incorporation OF companies
for the purpose of dealing in brood animals; to
authorize purchase of text books for use in pub
i lie schools by the School Board. The commit
tee on the liquor traffic reported flyorably bill
TO regulate the sale OF liquors TO minors and
habitual drunkards. 1t is very stringent in its
provisions.
THE Senate in committee of the whole, on
the 18th lust, had their daily wrangle over the
Coldwater public school scandal. In the course
OF debate. which became somewhat personal,
it was suggested that no charges had been
made against the management Senators j.
| w. Babcock, Hubbel1, and Deyo immediately
formulated and filed over their signatures the
following: 81. Certain teachers have been dis
charged with Just cause. 2. Certain male en-
ployes have taken indecent liberties with
certain female teachers. B. That because
other female b told 5 fn
added fuel to the flame. The contnu-
ance Of the debate was marked with Bit
terness and personalities, and the House resolu-
ton for an investigationswas defeated by vote
| of Is TO -. The Senators filing charges pro-
tested against the action of the Senate in
whitewashing the affair, but it was of no avail,
and the Senate. under the leadership OF Mr..
Palmer, squelched the demand for an investi-
CATION. Mr.. Shows bill, appropriating large
amount of State swamp land for retaining GER
tain lands in the townships of Albee and
| Spaulding, in Saginaw County, passed the oom-
mittee of the whole and was placed on order Of
third reading. IN the House of Representatives
bills were passed making an appropriation OF
$4,000 for the support of an asylum forinsane
criminals at Ionia; to provide for the appoint
| ment of live stock commissions to amend the
laws relative to foreclosure of chattel mort
cages to provide for laying ont State road in
Arenac, Iosco and Ogemaw counties. The bill
to make the Office of Insurance Commissioner
elective instead of sppointive, and to enlarge
his powers and duties, was taken from the
table ana hllleu
THE House bill to restore capital punishment
for murder was defeated in the Senate, on the
5th inst, by a vote of 10 to ID, after long and
warm debate The Senate took another turn al
the copper and iron specific tax BILL and agreed
that the State shall receive 30 and the county
90 per cent. of the tax 1t also passed a bill ap-
propriating $4,000 TO continue the work OF
frescong the Capitol. The bill contained pro-
yiso that the contract shall not be let to an
alien, and that no alien shall be employed on
the Job Senators Babcock and Deyo renewed
their charges against the Coldwater state pub
lie school management, offering another con-
current resolution to provide for a Legislative
investigation. The matter went over withou,
action. Gov. Luce nominated Daniel l.. Case
of Lansing Auditor General in 1S59-'60, and
Zach Chambers first political manager, ia
be a member OF the Board Of Control of the
State School for the Blind. and the Senate
promptly confirmed the nomination. The House
spent the entire day in committee of the whole
considering the proposed amendments to the
liquor laws. The committee agreed to increase
the tax for selling spirituous, mdit and brewed
| liquors from $500 to $500; for the manufacture
of spirituous liquors from $500 TO $500 and foi
the manufacture of malt and brewed liquors
from $40 to $500. motion that the law be ap-
piled to druggists was barely defeated
THIS short sermon for boys comes
from Maine. A school-teacher there